.As a teenager functioning as a cashier at Intended in the course of heavy traffic, Cindy Portillo would certainly strain to catch her breath as her palms came to be moist as well as her center raced. At the time, she might not name what was actually taking place: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was just at 21, after years of sensation in this manner and performing her personal investigation that a doctor diagnosed her with stress disorder. "I feel like I am actually the only one in my family members that has actually ever before experienced anxiety," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my loved ones, they failed to actually know exactly how to assist me, besides telling me that I required to visit chapel extra, or even get closer to God and also will help. Yet it failed to. I simply needed to have more support.".